They made some of those in France and other countries: Persepolis, Vals with Bashir...there is a movie about the comic book character Lucky Luke that looks quite nice but I haven't had the chance to check out yet.

There was also The Simpsons Movie.

Not to mention Disney's Princess and The Frog or anime in general (I'm not a fan of anime, but I moderately enjoy Miyazaki's work).

Yeah, it's not like there's a lot of it, but you can't kill 2d.

If Disney has some sort of success with their movie we'll probably see more of that. Let's hope so.

I'm not crazy about princess stories but at this point I'll watch anything if it's 2d.

"It's easy to pick on cheap crap. What's alarming is that the expensive crap is not much better."

This blog is one of the few places Ive seen the Pixar hate bandwagon pop up. There's nothing wrong with that Wall-e clip you posted. I'm sure you'll find others to agree with you, but you guys are in the minority.

"There's nothing wrong with that Wall-e clip you posted. [...] you guys are in the minority."

Both of these statements are right. That Wall-E clip is very well done. On top of that, millions of people enjoy that film, and Pixar's work in general.

I'm not on a "Pixar hate bandwagon". Pixar's work is excellent, even though I don't happen to enjoy it. I can tell you I don't enjoy a lot of John K's work either, but for different reasons.

What I meant to say was: The Inspector Gadget clip is ugly for its own sake; the Wall-E clip represents the ideas that spawned it. I was saying that the people who made the Gadget clip were misguided followers of the people who made the Wall-E clip.

A few of "the ideas" I refer to are emulating babies and puppies [Wall-E's design and behavior] and predefined facial cues [the captain's acting]. You might ask yourself, "is that so wrong?", and you'd probably answer "no", but I don't like it.

To its merit, the captain does have at least one original expression in that clip.

It depends of the movie. There are some CGI movies I enjoy more than others. I think "Up" looks better than "Wall-E" already.

Even though most people here talk mostly about the art, I moderately enjoy some movies with crappy visuals when I like the concepts, but "Wall-E" did very little for me in that department too. I'd concede it's not a bad movie, but I fail to see what makes it SO great either. I think a lot of other Pixar movies, especially "Monsters Inc." and "The Incredibles", are funnier and more emotional than "Wall-E" which has been over-praised. "Wall-E" works quite well during the first twenty minutes, then not so much.

Like I said before I also enjoyed Dreamworks' "Kung Fu Panda", but I still wished that they had made all the movie in 2D, like the opening sequence.

But probably the most enjoyable long features are those of Henry Selick and some Aardman ones. Not all of them, I actually found "Chicken Run" to be pretty disappointing, but "Curse Of The Wererabbit" and even "Flushed Away" were funny movies that didn't overuse the pop culture gags or the Disney messages and were more concentrated in the gags and the characters.

I used to love Inspector Gadget when I was a kid. And how can they screw it up? By CGing him and give him weird lips and creepy eyes. I don't know why, but his lips give this weird suggestive look about him.

yeesh! that is some skeevy stuff right there. almost as bad as the cg popeye.it seems like animation is always suffering either bad design, or bad animation, and in that example, clearly both.isaac, i think your thoughts are on point. for me, wall-e isnt particularly interesting to look at. bland design for a pixar film. my kid is nuts for it though. the animation on the other hand, amazing as usual.john, your stuff has always to me been genius when it comes to design/poses/expressions, blah blah. but the animation sometimes just kills it for me. i would kill your see your work animated well! is it a cost thing?

I found out that the Wall-E design not only ripped off Johnny Five from Short Circuit but the story was a rip off of the Sega Genesis game, Vector Man. All they added was a hypocritical enviromental message and Disney formula.